Anonymous wrote:Why will the medicaid provisions hurt rural hospitals? Is it because there are no jobs for the able-bodied to do, thus they cannot meet the work requirements? Or is it that illegal alien farm workers / factory workers are on Medicaid in these rural areas?

Anonymous wrote:And then there's this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/climate/gop-bill-adds-surprise-tax-that-could-cripple-wind-and-solar-power.html

Under the Senate bill, not only are subsidies for wind and solar axed, but a new tax is imposed!

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, more Medicaid and CHIP recipients voted for Trump than Harris. They are the ones who are getting screwed the most.

Good. They are getting what they so richly deserve. So many MAGAS will die and that's one way of getting rid of the MAGA base.

They threw in a 26 billion dollar subsidy for rural hospitals.

So rural hospitals can stay open and treat the poor for emergencies but poor people can’t get regular care that keeps them out of emergency room. Thanks MAGA. Oh and don’t forget higher interest rates for the rest of us. Dumb a**es.

Well do not count of Dems restoring these cuts. It is better for the Dems to keep these rural areas depopulated. Hopefully this Bill will end high speed internet for rural areas!

Remember even if you have insurance the number of providers will really decline. You will be lucky if you can get in to see a doctor is 6-10 weeks.

Space Shuttle Discovery's potential move to Houston could cost $300M-$400M, Smithsonian says

Texas Republicans aim to move Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston, but the funding estimated by Sen. Ted Cruz falls short of the required $300-$400 million

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Meanwhile, the Senate Commerce Committee — which Cruz chairs — has released draft language allotting $85 million in the latest version of the "One Big Beautiful Bill," President Donald Trump’s reconciliation and spending package, for moving the shuttle. Of that, $5 million would go toward transportation costs, according to the bill text.

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, more Medicaid and CHIP recipients voted for Trump than Harris. They are the ones who are getting screwed the most.

Good. They are getting what they so richly deserve. So many MAGAS will die and that's one way of getting rid of the MAGA base.

They threw in a 26 billion dollar subsidy for rural hospitals.

So rural hospitals can stay open and treat the poor for emergencies but poor people can’t get regular care that keeps them out of emergency room. Thanks MAGA. Oh and don’t forget higher interest rates for the rest of us. Dumb a**es.

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, more Medicaid and CHIP recipients voted for Trump than Harris. They are the ones who are getting screwed the most.

Good. They are getting what they so richly deserve. So many MAGAS will die and that's one way of getting rid of the MAGA base.

They threw in a 26 billion dollar subsidy for rural hospitals.

So rural hospitals can stay open and treat the poor for emergencies but poor people can’t get regular care that keeps them out of emergency room. Thanks MAGA. Oh and don’t forget higher interest rates for the rest of us. Dumb a**es.

NORTH CAROLINA WAS ONE OF THOSE Republican-led states that at first refused to participate in Obamacare’s “Medicaid expansion,” which makes federal funding available to states that widen their Medicaid programs to include many more people living near the poverty line. But advocates in North Carolina kept organizing and lobbying on behalf of expansion, and when popular Democratic governor Roy Cooper came into office in 2017 he made expansion a top priority. Small business owners and hospital leaders eventually became outspoken backers of expansion, helping to persuade key state Republicans to embrace the cause.

In the spring of 2023, the Republican-led legislature passed a bipartisan expansion bill and Cooper signed it. The new program launched on December 1 of that year, with about 300,000 people automatically enrolled. Since then, it has swelled to cover more than 600,000.

But those numbers alone don’t capture the full impact. Expansion has meant new money for providers who serve low-income populations, because now more of their patients can pay their bills.

That’s been especially important for organizations like Blue Ridge Health, a network of clinics in North Carolina’s westernmost counties where the percentage of uninsured patients declined almost overnight from about half to about a third, according to Richard Hudspeth, the system’s director.

Because that shift has increased revenue, Blue Ridge can now offer services like pediatric dentistry and behavioral health that had been practically unavailable in these rural communities before. It has also expanded its overall capacity—which, Hudspeth told me, made a big difference when Hurricane Helene swept through the region last fall.

“There was so much debris, and all these respiratory infections,” said Hudspeth, who is also a family physician and still sees patients. “Having that capacity let people get their lives together quicker, and get back to work too.”

Anonymous wrote:8 men own more money than 4 billion people combined.

Medicare nor Medicaid are the problem.

This has been an unhappy episode here in Congress, this effort to cut Medicaid. And I think, frankly, my party needs to do some soul searching. If you want to be a working-class party, you’ve got to deliver for working-class people,” Hawley said. “You cannot take away health care from working people. And unless this is changed going forward, that is what will happen in coming years. So I’m going to do everything I can to stop that.”

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, more Medicaid and CHIP recipients voted for Trump than Harris. They are the ones who are getting screwed the most.

Good. They are getting what they so richly deserve. So many MAGAS will die and that's one way of getting rid of the MAGA base.

They threw in a 26 billion dollar subsidy for rural hospitals.

They are cutting over a trillion. Who cares close the rural hospitals. Depopulation these deep red ares.

except they still have two senators each, so more tyranny of the minority.

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly, more Medicaid and CHIP recipients voted for Trump than Harris. They are the ones who are getting screwed the most.

Good. They are getting what they so richly deserve. So many MAGAS will die and that's one way of getting rid of the MAGA base.

They threw in a 26 billion dollar subsidy for rural hospitals.